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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 1h

A Very Muppet Grudge Starring: Janice - as Kayako Rizzo the Rat - as Toshio Animal - as Takeo Rowlf - as Mar the Cat(dog) With: Sarah Michelle Gellar -as Karen (still)

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 2h

... It's the version of the Black Death that had rhymes about how people would go to work in the morning and be dead by nightfall.)

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 2h

dude thinks pneumonic plague is the same thing as regular pneumonia, just... stronger. (pneumonic plague was/is the absolute *most deadly* version of y. pestis infection. Like 90+% fatality rate if not promptly treated - like within a day of symptoms arising...

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 2h

We're looking, very strongly, at the pneumonic plague. It's done an amazing job, and is being recognized more and more.

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 3h

there's gonna be 2 thematically-distinct episodes. In this first one, it's gonna be the living who go bother the dead. In the 2nd one, we reverse the situation... so BOLO for roving jiangshi

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 4h

And then all the other ministers are like, "Oh yeah, that's a good point." And they just rebury the empress-dowager with the emperor instead. Shouldn't've worn such a skimpy burial shroud, Lady...

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 4h

If her 17-year-dead corpse didn't want it, then why was she looking so sexy, hm??

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 4h

I'm doing an spooky story that involves necrophilia of a consort, & then the palace later tries to decide whether to inter her with the emperor after the empress-dowager's family is exterminated & this one guy stands up in court & is like, "*ACK*chually, we shouldn't because she's been despoiled."

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 5h

With snow inbound as of next week, this morning was a good one to enjoy the autumn a bit while it lasts…

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 7h

LifeProTip: Do not agree to sit down to eat with those who have loadly and repeatedly stated that they mean to poison you.

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 8h

When he's right, he right. This is not a very controversial position. It's in fact an incredibly anodyne position, so broadly taken as axiomatic that one would face a near-vertical climb trying to work against it. That gets you no closer to any logical version of "hear the MAGAs out over brunch."

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 8h

That. Is. Not. A. "Libertarian." Idea. Or. Position. That's the very basis of federalism itself, cripes.

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 8h

lord, please let this next part of this article be "... and that's fine, because as an economist, you'd have to be an insane clown to be otherwise..."

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 8h

But doctor," cried the patient in despair, "there is no one on 'the other side' that I like or respect enough to want to have lunch with! The shithead fascist pedophile-protectors at all that's left at this point, doc! There's nothing laudatory about mud wrestling with pigs, doc!"

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 9h

<Lord Eddard Stark voice>: “𝔚𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯 ℑ𝔰 ℭ𝔬𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔤.™️”

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 9h

“There’s so many Chinese there, especially the Chinese Cultural Center […] something’s up.” <Blood starts to leak from my ears as I read this>

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 18h

little investment opportunity (other than the real estate bubble) & high political exposure to things like purges

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, but only so long as they’re in their own lifespan’s timeline, and their Prime copy is apolitical

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 23h

Don’t worry, guys. I’m pretty sure Bluesky counts as a 10th degree of familiarity, so you’re all saf- … wait, I am being handed a slip of paper by my executioner…

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 23h

Same as me. There’s no conversation to be had. Hence, I instead just wax poetically into the void about it… seems far more worthwhile

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 23h

(I’m subtweeting the entire genre of wumao reply guy I get with the standard line of “wow you hate China” because I don’t lick the Party nutsack)

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 23h

Remember, O mighty Caesar: memento mori. Though thou have conquered the world, thou still art mortal. Thou still must also die.

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 23h

Love - be it for an individual, a place, an idea, whatever - is always a more complicated emotion than fawning praise. That’s not love. That’s being a lickspittle. Actual, real love is about being honest… even, and perhaps especially, when it’s unwelcome or inconvenient

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

fortunately, plague is pretty easy to clear up these days with a course of antibiotics (enjoy it while it lasts)

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Guys, this happens *literally* every year. Mongolia is where y. pestis lives and thrives & has done so for thousands of years at least. And every year, some crazy stupid asshole decides eating raw steppe marmot is an aphrodisiac and, well...

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

yup, they want them vid-ads, i'm sure they'd be thrilled with just some static images or a ppt of my own, I'm just too lazy

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Where have you gone, Will Smith? A nation turns its lonely eyes to your palm... ooh ooh ooh... hey hey hey....

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is also, unfortunately, where big companies are pouring their mmoney, and the tiny fraction that ever goes to podcasters is usually done so anymore on the contingency that they "Go Video!" the people crave The Theater Of The Mind ... it's just the ad guys who want my ugly mug

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It really is the medium trying to be something it isn't... something not only substantively different, but unsuitable to most audiences & (at least old-school) 'casters, & already a niche filled past capacity by every other video service on the planet

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah, no, this is fake. The pope never said this. The pope would never say this. Not only is he personally far too smart to do so, but the entire Vatican would not approve of something so directly confrontational.

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